None of the people in this photo got in to see the MythBusters. All images courtesy of Mark Simon.

The trek to Comic-Con has become as much of a show as the actual event. Traveling by air is miserable these days. Everyone I spoke with had delays and many of them, yours truly included, missed events they wanted to see because of the delays.

Finding a place to stay at Comic-Con is also an exercise in frustration. What was hot? Hotel rooms. The math is simple. Fifty-five thousand hotel rooms in San Diego. Only 9,800 of those rooms are within 1.5 miles of the convention center. One hundred twenty-five thousand attendees. Finding a place was not easy.

Comic-Con tried to help with blocks of rooms set aside, but once those rooms were released, they sold out in just five seconds (that's right, five seconds).

Attendees and exhibitors staying in hotels were stacking up four to six in a room. People commuted in from Los Angeles. I saw a lot of people sleeping on the street, although they may not have come in for the show.

The Clone Wars movie and series were hot. Friday was Star Wars day, with six special programs for all us Star Wars fanatics. If you thought Star Wars' popularity was waning, you should have seen these rooms. Every single seat was taken and the audiences were enthusiastic. Between the screenings and the panels, it was an extravaganza set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Cement steps are more comfortable than the padded chairs in the convention center. How do they do that?

Getting into some of the screenings and events was not always easy. Lines are now commonplace at Comic-Con. Impossibly long lines grow outside popular events. The good news is many of the rooms are huge and can accommodate thousands of people. Hall H, for instance, holds 6,500 people. The line outside snaked back and forth five times across the park next to the convention center, yet I was able to make it in for Rick Baker's presentation of his new Wolfman movie. It was hot outside, but we were standing outside in beautiful San Diego weather. Life could be worse.

Not everyone got into every event though. Jaime Hyneman and Adam Savage, stars of MythBusters, were truly hot. (You are not the only one who loves that show) The line for their panel went all the way down the hall to the end, went outside on the deck, all the way back down the entire building, around the corner, through an alley/breezeway (see photo), to the front of the building, turned and snaked back to the rear of the building and down the deck again. I was near the back of that line and didn't get anywhere close to getting in.

I proceeded to stand in another line that ran just outside the MythBusters room. I heard the audience roaring inside. It was like listening to your best friend make out with the girl of your dreams in the next room. (That only happened once, but it was memorable and horrible!)

Hot butts. I don't understand how someone can design a padded chair that is less comfortable than a concrete floor or step. There is no way to sit comfortably for more than 30 minutes in those awful seats. The designer should be flayed with a light saber.

The seats were painful, but we had to deal with it because Joss Whedon was hot. Every event of his was packed. People lined up for hours to learn something about his upcoming series Dollhouse. Friday's late-night event, starting at 10:45, had a presentation of Whedon's hilarious Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog. (If you haven't seen it yet, go to its website right now. Well, read the rest of my article first and then go.) The musical episode from Buffy The Vampire Slayer was the last event and closed the show for 2008. The audience sang along, waved their arms, talked back to the screens, and waved tickets in the air.